Viggen

While not a translation of the interview it is the first english summary http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/826808 cheers viggen

Right now the interview with the kidnapped austrian girl (which was hostage for 8 years) just finished, and you can see her talk (in german obviously) for the first time.. http://iptv.orf.at/ (the cover story) She had her eyes closed allot because she is still very sensitive to light, she has the flue, so her voice is a bit deep and her nose rins hehe,(not used to all the viruses that she is exposed now) she seems amazingly strong, happy and i think her future looks promising... if you lived behind a rock and dont have a clue what i am talking about, here some info

Thanks to community member Ursus we have now a review of the recently released DVD "Rome". Hollywood was never particularly kind to Ancient Rome. A generation or two ago, it was depicted as the tyrannical Evil Empire whose amoral paganism provided the antagonistic foil to Judeo-Christian values. In contemporary times Hollywood has abandoned any moral pretense and instead inflicts soulless hype such as

LOL, we had it on the front page, in the calendar section, in the forum, and we sent out a newsletter, actually you didnt had to be much alert because it was basically everywhere cheers viggen

Can you make a WoW Guild Banner? It should be a "Horde" theme, if you are interested let me know...

As the devout among the ancients knew well, nothing spices up a boring sermon like having your own sacrifice pit parked in front of your church. Throw in a secret tunnel to the death chamber, and you've got a churchgoing experience that no suburban mega-church, no matter how many good parking spots it offers, could ever match. An ancient Temple of Apollo located amid the ruins of Hierapolis, the "sacred city," in Western Turkey suggests such attractions may have been something of a franchise among temples during the Roman era. Hierapolis was a Greek city famed for its hot springs that the Romans took over in 133 B.C. Apollo, the Sun god, was the chief deity of the city, and Italian researchers from the University of Lecce reveal some of the inner workings of the temple there in the current Journal of Archaeological Science. full article at USA Today

Archaeologists believe that they have found the ruins of the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans lived in the area between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Romans about 600 years later. full article at the Times Online

A pictorial exhibition exploring the history of tattooing in Britain is to go on display in the unlikely setting of Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities (Tuesday 29 August). It's a little known fact, but it would appear that all of the legionaries and some of the auxiliaries on Hadrian's Wall would have had a tattoo', says the University's Director of Archaeological Museums and Roman expert, Lindsay Allason-Jones. full article at Newcastle University

On top of the forum you see a link called "My Control" click on it, then you should see on the left side a link called "Edit Signatur", click and put in your text of choice... cheers viggen

Nice find! speaking of Harris, Publisher Simon & Schuster sent PP a review copy of this particular book, so expect a review from our very own PP soon...

An archaeological dig in Kent has turned up a Roman bathhouse described as "totally unique" for the county. The remains of the 5th Century building were uncovered in a field in Faversham by students working with the Kent Archaeological Field School. Dr Wilkinson said: "There's unique shapes in it, there's a hexagon plunge bath in the centre, there would have been two storeys, there's a fountain in the centre of it. full article at the BBC

A new study suggests that prehistoric birds of prey made meals out of some of our earliest human ancestors. Researchers drew this conclusion after studying more than 600 bones from modern-day monkeys. They had collected the bones from beneath the nests of African crowned eagles in the Ivory Coast's Tai rainforest. A full-grown African crowned eagle is roughly the size of an American bald eagle, which typically weighs about 10 to 12 pounds. full article at Science Daily

All the books have been ordered (we had winners from Canda, USA, England and Australia), thanks to everyone for participating... cheers viggen

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Pantagathus. I am one of those people who secretly thinks that every epic adventure that has been penned since the Odyssey is just second rate literary counterfeiting. I first read both the Iliad and the Odyssey outside an academic environment and most of the commentary I've read since those first readings has usually been by other ancient writers... ...read the full review of Rediscovering Homer by Andrew Dalby

well MPC didnt reply that he isnt interested in this book, secondly if i remember correctly he quoted several books on Caesar in various of his posts, so he must have read them, which is only logic if you have such a great interest in this person... regards viggen

The competition is over and the winners have been choosen! ...and the winners are!!!! spittle - A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War by Gary Forsythe Gaius Paulinus Maximus - The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough Antiochus of Seleucia - Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins Princeps - The Emperor Domitian Brian W. Jones brotus maximus - The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean by Nigel Bagnall docoflove1974 - The Roman Revolution Ronald Syme M. Porcius Cato - Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Honorius - An Introduction to Roman Religion by John Scheid All winners will be notified via pm, thanks to everyone for participating and to E-consultancyfor providing us with the funds....

New books that will come out in September Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy Rome's Vestal Virgins by Robin Wildfang Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric by Michael Kulikowski Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by R. Malcolm Errington Roman Religion (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization) by Valerie M. Warrior Poverty in the Roman World by Margaret Atkins

So many pretty girls cant be wrong!

One of the most significant events and probably the most important battle in Europe since the Battle of Tours happend 323 years ago and shaped the future of Europe (and the west in general) in a way that we are still affected today because the Battle marked the historic end of Turkish expansion into southeastern Europe. King Sobieski of Poland who led the relief army is till today regarded as a hero in vienna and rightly so. ...more info about the battle at All Experts

The decline of the Maya civilization began some 1,100 year ago when millions of Indians working on the contruction of tall pyramidal temples and palaces learned that their kings weren't gods, Spanish anthropologist Andres Ciudad told EFE. The collapse of this culture with its brilliant mathematicians, astronomers and engineers, came when monarchs stopped being immortal in the eyes of their subjects, said Ciudad, who is deputy dean of the Faculty of Geography and History at Madrid's Universidad Complutense... full article at MercoPress

A rare Anglo-Saxon belt buckle found by a treasure hunter with a metal detector is going on public display for the first time. The copper alloy buckle dates from between AD600 and AD720 and is only the second one of its type found in England. full article at the BBC

This article was brought to us by forum member FLavius Valerius Constantinus To the Romans, Arabia Petraea was one of three zones that comprised the whole of Arabia (the other two regions being Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix). In the Roman geographical sense, it was an Eastern or Hellenized province located directly to the south of Syria, bordering Egypt's nothern limit, and juxtaposed against Iudea (also Syria Paelestina)... ...continue with the article on Arabia Petraea

Very Wrong! According to the US of Census there are 40 million americans living below the poverty line, thats more then 10% which is unheard of in western europe I can assure you, western europe is fully capable of reporting crimes and they are much lower then the USA, Ah ok so you dont want to discuss, you are just right, period, good to know, no need to talk any longer then... cheers viggen p.s. btw Liechtenstein has the much better system anyway... but i wont explain this, you know, because that how it seems to work in discussion those days, you just claim something and then dont back it up...

Hello, here some books that might help you Antioch: The Lost Ancient City Antioch as a Centre of Hellenic Culture, as Observed by Libanius Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Pertinax. Originally published in French in 1940 and republished several times in translation since. My initial reaction was that the density of the translated prose and its sonorous and decorous rendition into the English language would be a barrier to the modern reader. This was the case at first , as Carcopino deals with the architectural theme of Trajan